Can't add extension, just get a throbber that never stops
I'm on FF 154.0. The power went out here and when it came back and I booted the desktop computer something had changed in FF.
I used to see the active tab as green in the tab bar and yellow for the rest, but now they're all gray until I mouse over the bar and only then does it turn green/yellow.
I struggled with this for many hours trying many //active tab color// solutions I found in searches but nothing got it back to my old behavior.
So as a last resort I tried adding the Firefox Color extension, but when I click Add to Firefox it just turns into a throbber that never changes so it doesn't install. I'm stuck!
Frustrated!!
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If you research [userChrome.css] you can format all colors, text and sizing to your design.
The green and yellow I've never seen, sounds like a theme or a system setting. Do you have green and yellow on other apps.
There is also this option https://color.firefox.com/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=theme-footer-link
My userChrome.css [userChrome.css -> .mozilla/firefox/o35uvffr.ian-1504212690420/chrome/userChrome.css] has been this for ages but it no longer has any effect:
- TabsToolbar .tabbrowser-tab:is([selected],[multiselected]) label {
color: red !important; } .tabbrowser-tab[selected] .tab-content {
background-color: #CCFFCC !important; }
.tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected]) .tab-content {
background-color: #FFFFCC !important; }
.tabbrowser-tab:not([selected="true"]):not(:hover) .tab-content {
background-color: #E0E0E0 !important; }
tab-background[selected]{ background: #f00 !important }
For changes in the client code tweaks look around https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ — they will know what updates are necessary. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/1vto2lx/ff_154_broke_tab_text_color/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/1vw2xsc/firefox_tab_borders_broken_since_last_update/
I never got this fixed. All I've learned is that toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets must be TRUE, but changes to userContent.css like changing the tab colors has no effect.
The colors #CCFFCC for selected tab and #FFFFCC for not selected are coming from somewhere but I don't know where (unless they're defaults).
I've spent a lot of time on this but I'm stumped. I really want my old behavior back:
The active tab's background color is #CCFFCC (light green) all the time and the rest are #E0E0E0 (light gray) until you mouse over them, then they turn #FFFFCC (light yellow) while hovering.
Help!
I have Ubuntu (Noble) which I will use this evening UK
I'm post a screen shot of my toolbar and the code.
Modified by amoun
amoun, have I missed it? I'm not seeing any screenshot or code.
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